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Cobol
Inefficient, verbose and ugly, yet by the 1990s, 80 per cent of the world's business software was written in Cobol. Aleks Krotoski explores why.
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Cobol is an episode from Codes that Changed the World by BBC. Inefficient, verbose and ugly, yet by the 1990s, 80 per cent of the world's business software was written in Cobol. Aleks Krotoski explores why. The episode was published on Apr...
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Published Apr 7, 2015, 13:52 long, audio available.
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